UIOP feature idea...

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

>> What about making UIOP:FILE-LENGTH be generic and take either strings
>> (filenames), pathnames, or streams as argument?
>>
> Such a function probably fits in the library, though a bit less so if
> it is *not* used by ASDF.
>
> Please don't use a name that clashes with the CL package. The ASDF and
> UIOP tradition seems to suggest such a function should be named
> FILE-LENGTH*.

Or FILE-SIZE

If you want to determine a "size" of a file without opening it (and
counting newlines), then you're not considering a length (of a sequence,
stored in the stream), but a file system file size.

There's ql-util:file-size

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